I wrote these scripts a while ago and am only just coming back to them. They used to operate as a pair but I'm trying to use Binhex on its own. the problem is that Binhex will not properly put back together the hex file. Hexbin will (although but if I use it on a .wav file, the file has a lot of static in it. If I use Binhex to recompile it, Windows media player will not open the file. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? (Also, I'm going to look into this myself, but if anyone knows how to split the txt files into bytes, please tell me).

Thanks, here's the code:

Binhex:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $hexbin = shift;
my $filename = shift; 
my $savefile = shift;

open (INPUT,"$filename") || die "Couldn't open file: $!";
open (OUTPUT,">$savefile") || die "Unable to save: $!";

if ($hexbin eq "-h"||"-H") {
    binhex();
}
elsif ($hexbin eq "-b"||"-B") {
    hexbin();
}

close INPUT;
close OUTPUT;
exit 0;

sub binhex {
    binmode INPUT;
    while (<INPUT>) { 
        print OUTPUT unpack ('H*', $_), "\n";
    }
}

sub hexbin {
    while (<INPUT>) { 
        print OUTPUT pack ('H*', $_), "\n";
    }
}
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Hexbin:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $filename = shift;
my $savefile = shift;

open (HEX,"$filename") || die "Couldn't open file: $!";
open (SAVEFILE,">$savefile") || die "Unable to save: $!";
while (<HEX>) {
    print SAVEFILE pack ('H*', $_), "\n";
}
close HEX;
close SAVEFILE;
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